Checkrein-guide.



No. 663,|25. Patented Dec. 4, I900.

J. B. LEIGHTON.

GHECKBEIN sums.

(Application filed June 2, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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CHECKRElN-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,125, dated December1900- Application filed Tuna 2,1900. Serial No. 18,798. (No model.)

tached to or detached from a bridle or other part of a harness, theguide being so mounted that it can freely turn as the horse turns hishead, thereby preventing the rein from chafing or wearing against theloop or loops constituting a part. of the guide.

One of the features of the invention consists in the combination, with abridle, of a guide connected to one of its straps for turningmovement,said guide having means to receive and retain a checkrein, andin the present instance such guide consists, preferably, of a pluralityof open loops through which the straps of the checkrein can be readilypassed without the necessity of threading the same therethrough, thelatter being the usual custom.

In the drawings the checkrein-guide is rep resented as comprisinga bodyhaving checkrein loops and provided intermediate said loops with atransverse shank adapted to be suitably connected with a bridle. Aconvenient manner is by forming a pivot-opening in said shank to receivethe tongue of the buckle to which the winker-stay is connected.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bridle of ordinarykind, showing my checkrein guide in connection therewith.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the bridle and the guide, both onan enlarged scale; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view, also on an enlargedscale, of the guide detached.

I have designated the bridle shown in part in Figs. 1 and 2 by A, ithaving the usual crown-piece 5, provided upon its upper side with awinker-stay buckle, as 6, extending forward therefrom to receive thewinker stay or strap 7.

The loops ordinarily employed to receive checkreins have no side motion,so that when The checkrein-guide (see Fig. 3) is denoted in a generalway by B, and it comprises a body having loops at its ends shown asresilient tongues 9 and 10, said loops being opposite one another, and ashank or stem 12, extending forward from the latter. Said tongues withthe adjacent portion of the body form open loops to receive the strapsof the checkrein. Said shank or stem is in the present instanceconnected with the winkerstay buckle 6, and its forward end is curveddownward and has an opening 14c to receive the tongue 15 of the buckle6, as indicated in Fig. 2. Just back of the buckle 6 the usual loop 16is arranged, its purpose being to receive the free end of the stay orstrap 7 after the tongue is passed through one of the holes of the same.This loop 16 is also adapted to receive the shank 12 when thecheckrein-guide B is being applied. To connect said checkrein-guide withthe bridle, the forward end of the shank 12 is passed forward throughthe loop 16 until the opening 14E is in position to receive the tongue15, and the latter being slightly elevated to bring it into line withthe. opening the guide B will be drawn back until the curved portion 13thereof strikes against the short strap 17, connecting the buckle 6 withthe crown-piece A. After this is done the winker-stay is connected withits buckle. The tongue 15 serves as an effective pivot for the guide Band allows the same to readily turn back and forth. The tongues 9 and 10are integral with the guide, the part B being conveniently formed in onepiece and being cheaply produced by stamping from sheet metal. Thetongues 9 and 10 are resilient, so that the free portions thereof can beraised to freely insert and remove. the branches or straps of thecheckrein to save time in hitching up a horse, as ordinarily this isdone by threading the branches of the checkrein through theirguide-loops. The free ends of said loops with a transverse shank, theforward end of said shank being curved downward, and said curved endhaving an opening to receive the tongue of a buckle or other pivot.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN B. LEIGHTON.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN.

